Judi Sutherland

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Poet and European. British, living in Ireland. #FBPE. Lymphoma patient.
Latest book ‘Following Teisa’ - a poetry journey along the River Tees, available on Amazon.

We are in a fight for the future of our planet.
According to the Electoral Commission website, cases of voter fraud in the UK are few: So why all the fuss?
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/voter-id-great-idea-or-voter-suppression/
Voter ID:  great idea or voter suppression?

According to the Electoral Commission website, cases of voter fraud in the UK are few: So why all the fuss?

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A little story.

In 2014, the UK charity, Stonewall, had a new CEO: Ruth Hunt.

Ruth wanted to make Stonewall trans inclusive. Up until that point it hadn’t been. Part of that effort was to recruit an advisory group from the UK trans community.

I was on that group. I ended up as its vice chair.

We spent the next year and a bit creating a document called “A Vision For Change”, which detailed what we thought the areas that trans equality campaigning should focus on in Britain.

Then the Brexit referendum happened and Cameron ragequit. Theresa May came in and it was apparent there was very little government apetite for the stuff we wanted.

But May, who was there when the same Sex marriage bill went through under the earlier coalition government had had something of a damascene conversion to LGBT rights issues. Stranger things have happened (but not many!)

So she wanted something from our list that was quick, easy, and uncontroversial. Obviously we were disappointed, but she was presented with bringing Britain’s antiquated Gender Recognition Act up to date, and in line with other European countries, as something simple. We honestly thought it was. It’s an administrative change of very little significant consequence, and actually no significance at all outside the trans community.

And it would have been simple, had an eclectic collection of unpleasant, obsessive arseholes with privileged access to the UK press not decided to start a culture war over trans people at that exact moment.

A culture war which, at least in England, they basically won. In part, this war was why I emigrated to Portugal.

Here we are, seven years later, and the result of Scotland finally wanting to implement a watered down version of the “easy win” we presented to Theresa May is apparently that the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is willing to end the Union between England and Scotland over it.

So that’s my story. I am part of a small, elite cabal of LGBT people who wrote a document that is poised to destroy the last vestiges of the British Empire.

Go me! If there are any other governments you want destabilising, my bank details are available on request. I provide reasonable rates.
THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer
Brexit is not working, that’s true. But it is more important to say that was, and continues to be fundamentally wrong, in principle.
#ukpolitics
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Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #HistoryRemix

This Month in Physics History

February 11, 1939: Meitner/Frisch paper on nuclear fission

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Rejoiners like me are going to push even harder in 2023. Leavers are weak, they know they've messed up. I'm never going to give up - and it will get easier and easier to make a case for rejoining. #RejoinEU #brexitbritain

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SmileyVai/status/1607340464973221888

SmileyVai on Twitter

“Rejoiners like me are going to push even harder in 2023. Leavers are weak, they know they've messed up. I'm never going to give up - and it will get easier and easier to make a case for rejoining. #RejoinEU #brexitbritain”

Twitter
Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times:

This is your daily reminder that you have millions of friends and allies in the EU.

Also, remember that a person who lives to spew racist, sexist, violent bile in newspaper columns is an empty husk that lives an empty life.

No matter their wealth and status the hatred is always there eating away at them.

Every day they'll have to tell themselves that they're right. Every day they know in their hearts that they are wrong.

#DailyReminder

https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/109557622645800271

Sune Auken (@[email protected])

This is your daily reminder that you have millions of friends and allies in the EU. Today, the reminder goes out to friends and allies in Ukraine too. You have millions and millions and millions and millions of friends and allies in the EU. Thank you for your fight for freedom and democracy. You didn't want this war; you'll win it. #DailyReminder #UkraineWillWin #Ukraine #DemocracyWins https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/109550961902804359

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